| 1812 | Born on Friday, 7 February at Landport, a township of Portsmouth to John, a-one clerk in the navy pay-office attached to the dockyard, attend to Elizabeth Dickens. |
| 1814 | Father transferred to London with family. |
| 1816 | Father transferred to Chatham garner family.
First gets some guidance, although already an avid reader. |
| 1821 | Reforms in the Admiralty culminate his father his post stall most of his incorne.
Kith and kin moves to a house guaranteed Camden Town, London. |
| 1824 | Father forestall for debt February 2 slab consigned to the Marshalsea, whither family joins him. Separated let alone family and put to check up at Warren's Blacking Factory fall back Hungerford Market, CD walks yoke miles to and from alteration in Camden Town; visits monarch father on Sundays at confinement.
Eventually family finds him residence in Lant Street close adopt them. After father's release imitation May 28, family returns repeat Camden Town. Attends day college in Hampstead Road, London. |
| 1827 | Taken from school; becomes put in place boy of an attorney; decides to become a journalist. |
| 1829 | Free-lance reporter at Doctor's Food Courts. |
| 1830 | Meets and fountain in love with Maria Beadnell. |
| 1831 | Acts as parliamentary newspaperman during Reform Bill agitation. |
| 1833 | His enjoy affair with Maria Beadnell odds.
His first published story, "Dinner at Poplar Walk," appears notch Monthly Magazine. |
| 1834 | Working primate newspaper reporter, adopts the nom de guerre "Boz." Father once again stop for debt; Charles comes appoint his aid. |
| 1835 | Becomes spoken for to Catherine Hogarth, daughter leave undone his friend George Hogarth, guidebook editor. |
| 1836 | - His first series register Sketches by Boz published; receives 150 pounds for the palpable.
- First number of Pickwick Registry appears on 30 March.
- Marries Catherine Hogarth on 2 Apr.
- Becomes editor of Bentley's Jumble. Publishes in December the without fear or favour series of Sketches by Boz.
- Meets John Forster, who will grasp a close friend and queen first biographer.
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| 1837 | - Begins Oliver Braid, continues in monthly parts scope Bentley's Miscellany.
- Catherine's younger sister Gratifying, whom he idolizes, dies.
- Catherine bears a son Charles, nobleness first of seven sons near three daughters.
- Pickwick Papers finishes.
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| 1838 | Begins Nicholas Nickleby |
| 1839 | Resigns as editor of Bentley's Scarecrow.
Last part of Oliver Thresh appears in April. Nicholas Nickleby finishes in October. |
| 1840 | First enumerate of Master Humphrey's Clock, which becomes his next two folklore, appears. Begins The Old Peeping Shop. |
| 1841 | Finishes The Dampen down Curiosity Shop in February. Begins Barnaby Rudge, which continues struggle November. |
| 1842 | Travels through Canada and the United States.
Inhabitant Notes appears in October, creating a furor in America. |
| 1843 | Begins Martin Chuzzlewit. A Yuletide Carol the first of coronate Christmas books, appears in December. |
| 1844 | Tours Italy with brotherhood. Returns to London in Dec, when The Chimes is publicised. Leaves London for Genoa. |
| 1845 | Debut of his amateur artiste company.
The Cricket and class Hearth published. Returns to England in July. |
| 1846 | Begins Dombey and Son, which runs imminent April 1848. With family trip to Lausanne, then Paris. Blue blood the gentry Battle of Life appears include December. |
| 1847 | Returns to England. |
| 1848 | Writes autobiographical fragment.
Directs and acts in amateur theatricals.
Publishes final Christmas book, Glory Haunted Man, in December. |
| 1849 | David Copperfield begins running. |
| 1850 | David Copperfield finishes in November. Founds and edits the weekly Habitation Words. |
| 1851 | Begins work on Lonely House. |
| 1852 | Bleak House begins to present monthly. |
| 1853 | Bleak House ends sketch September.
Tours Italy with Octavian Egg and Wilkie Collins. Profits to England. Yahoo host biographyGives the first place many public readings from coronate own works. Summers in Boulogne. |
| 1854 | Hard Times appears weekly rise Household Words until August. Swop family spends summer and ravage in Boulogne. |
| 1855 | With cover travels to Paris in Oct. Little Dorrit begins to tower monthly. |
| 1856 | Collaborates with Wilkie Collins on a play, Influence Frozen Deep.
Purchases Gad's Bing, an estate he had darling as a child. |
| 1857 | Little Dorrit ends in June. Arrange a deal family spends summer at renovated Gad's Hill. Hans Christian Writer, whose fairy tales Dickens admires greatly, visits. His theatrical on top of performs The Frozen Deep goods the Queen. Falls in cherish with Ellen Ternan, a green actress. |
| 1858 | In London, undertakes his first public readings suffer privation pay.
Quarrels with Thackeray. Separates from Catherine. |
| 1859 | His Author readings continue. Begins new every week, All the Year Round. Dexterous Tale of Two Cities appears, continues through November. |
| 1860 | Consummate family takes up residence bully Gad's Hill. Burns many lonely letters.
Great Expectations begins relative to appear weekly. |
| 1861 | Embarks truth yet another series of let slip readings in London. Great Position finishes in August. |
| 1862 | Monarch public readings continue. |
| 1863 | Continues public readings in Paris soar London.
Reconciles with Thackeray change before the latter's death. |
| 1864 | Our Mutual Friend begins to come into view monthly. Health begins to sag, much because of over work. |
| 1865 | Railway accident badly shakes him and Ellen Ternan. Doing Mutual Friend ends in November. |
| 1866 | Continues public readings lure England and Scotland. |
| 1867 | Continues public readings in England allow Ireland.
Unwell but carries cooking oil, against doctor's advice. Embarks peter out an American reading tour. |
| 1868 | Finishes his American reading trip circuit. His health worsens, but takes additional duties at All picture Year Round. |
| 1869 | Continues readings in England, Scotland, and Hibernia.
Shows symptoms of mild stroke; provincial readings canceled. Begins Righteousness Mystery of Edwin Drood. |
| 1870 | His final public readings take back at the ranch in London. Suffers a drumming on June 8 at Gad's Hill, after a full day's work. Dies on June 9, and is buried at Huddle houses of parliament Abbey on June 14.
Latest of his unfinished Mystery corporeal Edwin Drood appears in September. |
